Underwater movies from les Saintes, Guadeloupe

Today I would love to show you the underwater life, beauty and colours in movies...Enjoy the abundance of fish, sponges&corals and the cute little turtle in the last movie:-))



In the next video you will meet the cute porcupine fish (in French "diodon"), who can inflate like a ball, when it gets scared.



And as promised a turtle swimming against the current...

Underwater colours in les Saintes

 

While waiting for the spring colours (+ all flowers in the Netherlands) I would love to take you on a dive today with me in underwater colours of the island group les Saintes...I have written earlier about this paradise place (part of the French Caribbean, under Guadeloupe), but now I would like to elaborate on all the hidden beauties: the ones under the water surface...

 

Before one goes underwater one may not imagine all the huge diversity of colours, shapes and inhabitants. Next to colourful rocks and caves (see first picture), one should also watch out for the tiny and shiny locals. The famous "crabe tour Eiffel" (second picture) and the cleaning shrimps (last picture) need a closer look before one may enjoy them...

Amazing clams in Mayotte...

I have never seen so impressive and different shells underwater as in Mayotte. Here I would like to share with you my best of selection. For sure one of the most interesting (and at the same time the most difficult to photographe) is the thorny oyster, on the first picture. It is big around 30 cm and close itself when you approach it.

A bit smaller but not at all less magnificent is the shell on the second picture. The colours of the coral oyster look almost surreal and they shine in the water and when the sunshine passes through the water too...

The giant clam (most of the time purple, brown or green) are the one on the fourth and fifth pictures. They can reach from 20 up to 100-150cm...

Fishes of Mayotte and more...

The underwater world of Mayotte is just breathtaking! Huge coral
gardens accommodate an enormous abundance of coral reef fishes...On
the pictures above you may admire:
- butterfly fishes
- an octopus
- a leaf fish
- an angel fish;

Diving in Santorini, Greece

Another highlight in Santorini is the diving in/ next the crater of the volcano. Together with Diving Club Volcano we went from Kamari till the small island Aspronisi and had 2 amazing dives.

One of the dive master was opening sea urchins with his knife and like this attracting the fishes around him (above).

Plenty of colourful fishes as well as very wonderful stone and cooled lava formations welcomed us. At some places the lave has built up like stairs underwater.